Loyola Environment Program students attended the South Central Geological Society of America conference 2016 in Baton Rouge. The students presented a poster describing a class project, which explored a relationship between impervious land cover and subsidence. They spent the day listening to scientific presentations, presenting their poster, and observing other posters.
Pavement’s Impact on Subsidence in a New Orleans Neighborhood
Biology alum Jenni Austiff (BS 2014) has been accepted into graduate school at Harvard University, where she will study evolutionary biology in the lab of Dr. Jim Hanken.
Senior Latin American Studies major, Martín Better (2016), in concert. Protest Music of Latin America and the story behind it.
Dr. David White professor in the Environment Program and Biology department co-authored with Dr. Jenneke Visser from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette published a ground breaking study on the "Water quality change in the Mississippi River, including a warming river, explains decades of wetland plant biomass change within its Balize delta." Aquatic Botany 132 (2016) 5-11.
Dr. Rosenbecker presented her paper, "Two-a-Day: American Vaudeville and Greek Old Comedy", at the 112th Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South in Williamsburg, Virgina (March 16-19, 2016).
Dr. Rosenbecker's adaptation of Aristophanes' Wealth (performed by the Theater department in Spring 2013) will appear in the Spring 2016 edition of "The Mercurian", a journal dedicated to discussion of translation and adaptation of plays, and their performances.
Michael Kammer (Physics'12) has received a Master's degree in Biomedical Engineering from Vanderbilt University. His thesis title is "Characterizing Aptamer-Small Molecule Interactions with Backscattering interferometry". He is also a co-author of two articles recently published in The Analyst and in PNAS Plus.
Philosophy students Brittney Esie, Thanh Mai, and Emily Polvado presented their paper "Regenerative Medicine and the Environment" at the National Undergraduate Bioethics Conference at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio on April 9, 2016.
Alexandra Thayer, a finance and management double major with a mathematics minor, was awarded a teaching assistantship in the Department of Statistics, Florida State University for the 2016 academic year. The assistantship includes a tuition waiver for 9 credits and a stipend for the fall and spring semesters.
On March 2, 2016, Dr. Kahn participated in a panel titled "Why We Need Feminism Today in America” as part of the first annual Loyola University New Orleans Feminist Festival.